Para 8: Cold War

Question 1

What does the 1950s bring to the forefront?

Answer 1

‘The Culture Wars’

Question 2

What are both sides trying to do in the Culture Wars?

Answer 2

Trying to win the hearts and minds of the public in this ideological war which questions how societies are governed

Question 3

What do the Soviets try to highlight?

Answer 3

That American rhetoric about freedom and opportunity is an empty promise

Question 4

What does America argue about the Soviets?

Answer 4

That communist governments are corrupt and undemocratic and capitalism is the only true form of government

Question 5

What years are the Vietnam war

Answer 5

1964-1975

Question 6

What was the Vietnam War?

Answer 6

A major epicentre of a political and social crisis on the home front and challenges associated with the Vietnam War challenged American society and past definitions of freedom

Question 7

What justified the mass violations of civil liberties in this period?

Answer 7

The defence of America, and McCarthyism creates a gateway for persecutions of not only communists, but anything believed to be subversive or un-American

Question 8

Following World War Two, as the United States emerges as the superpower of the world, who is their only rival and what is being contested?

Answer 8

Their only rival being the Soviet Union and the notion of which form of government most guarantees freedom is contested heavily